{"id":1895,"date":"2010-10-19T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonapollovoss.local\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2018-08-17T14:06:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:06:19","slug":"indebtedness-is-a-national-security-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2010\/10\/19\/indebtedness-is-a-national-security-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Indebtedness is a national security issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I wanted to share with you a quick stat that I think illustrates why debt is a national security issue.\u00a0 I am of course speaking of U.S. government debt.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the stat&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Chinese government holds $868.4 billion in U.S. government debt.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The U.S. has roughly 306 million citizens.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Therefore, each U.S. citizen owes the Chinese $2,838!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Hopefully the above does not need parsing.\u00a0 Oh, and please don&#8217;t read too much into this missive as to my politics.\u00a0 When asked my political affiliation I always say: Thinker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Jason<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">P.S. &#8211; The next blog post will be my 500th (!) since publication began October 6, 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share with you a quick stat that I think illustrates why debt is a national security issue.\u00a0 I am of course speaking of U.S. government debt.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the stat&#8230; The Chinese government holds $868.4 billion in U.S. government debt. The U.S. has roughly 306 million citizens. Therefore, each U.S. citizen owes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}